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In Celebration of Food

Recently, the wonderful food writer and eat what you want advocate, Ruby Tandoh wrote a piece about the nostalgia of food. The simple kind of food that gives you instance gratification. That makes you feel safe and at home and easily fills you with joy. And most importantly the kind of food that makes you feel like you. She talked about Mars Bars and cheddar cheese a lot (girl after my own heart/stomach). Whilst, I’m generally in love with food 99.9% of the time, her piece rekindled my love of food even more. It reminded me that it is only to be enjoyed. That it is never to feel guilty about and that it is a privilege that I have easy, ready access to it. In honour of food and the simple, but wonderful pleasures it brings, I have written a list of food that gives me great oral pleasure (maybe I should reword that sentence, but Imma just gonna leave it as it is). It’s a very personal list, as what food brings you comfort and makes you feel at home, can only be unique to yourself.

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I have just recently been introduced to the delight of fresh lemon juice on thin pancakes or crepes. Decadent. As far as I am concerned, there is no place in this world for margarine. What is the point of it? Always butter, always.

You know, I’m currently having a love affair with butter from Ireland. Give me a peice of toast with Kerigold butter and it’s almost as good as dessert–in fact I had it for dessert the other day. Since butter figures in your list, I can’t help but mention my secret butter-love.
You’re so right–this food abundance is a privilege. Celebrating it, not shaming ourselves about it, makes so much more sense.

Cheese in big chunks, cheese on crumpets, cheese on toast, cheese on crackers with tomato, cheese and olives, cheese and onion sandwiches, cheese and peanut butter sandwiches, even as a cheesecake. Did I mention a day is not a happy one without —— Fun post, Hayley!!

I might be going out on a limb here, but…do you like cheese at all haha? We definitely have a love of cheese in common, Suzanne. It is everything. I’d rather go without chocolate than cheese (though I’d rather not go without either). Cheers x

Well, April, eggs and cheese is another delight I should have added! Fresh eggs are so yummy, and, I miss ours from the farming days!! Though having said that the eggs we have around Europe/UK are tasty with very yellow/orange yolks!

Grass-fed butter, rich tea biscuits I have 3 every morning with my cuppa and it has to be thin pancakes with lemon( lots) and sugar or maple syrup and hot crumpets with butter and… I have just put on 5lbs just typing this 🙂

This was a sensory delight to read…starving now! Smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel. Eggs benedict. Chicken,spinach and chickpea curry….I currently do SW and look forward to treats! You are right; food is there to be enjoyed!

Beans means Heinz fact. You’re spot on there. I love a good home cooked roast dinner too. Crunchies and crunchie ice creams are my favourite. I am now sat in bed stomach rumbling and salivating onto my phone screen. Haha which means your post hit the spot! Now I must go and hunt out crumpets.

What a list!! My weakness is (especially in the winter) comfort foods like mashed potatoes and gravy and stuffing and desserts….I better stop now. I’m getting hungry just thinking about all this delicious food! 😉

JEEZUS. This was like reading porn. I was like, “Oh, yes. Mmmhmmm. Come to mama. Yup. Just like that. I’ve never experienced that, but it sounds amazing. Good Lord. Yes. That. And, that. Ooh. Yum. Can it get any better? OMFG. YES, YES, YES!”
I’m really, really, really hungry and just a slight bit confused about my raving attraction to food now, but this was delicious.

This post makes me so happy…although I can’t get many of these foods in Canada.

They don’t seem to eat crumpets (the shame!) I have found vegemite, but no marmite, and (omg) the orange smarties don’t have a different flavour! They just taste like all the other smarties!! Don’t even get me started on the lack of hobnobs and jaffa cakes.

Ah well. I am learning to love Canadian things instead. They have such good salmon and the brunches here are to die for. I just need a crumpet now and then!!

What’s the point of having orange Smarties if they don’t make them taste of orange chocolate?!?! This is the main reason I could never permanently live in another country. I love British food too much. I can just imagine the Canadian salmon & brunches are amazing though. All that maple syrup!

I really like frying my potatoes in it. Mix it with butter when sauteing anything. Or frying and kind of meat. It helps that I can get great lard in Eastern European deli stores here in Toronto. Ok, I am getting hungry now.